Acceptance of the override will increase the town's operating budget for Fiscal Year 2015 to $60.5 million and increase its annual tax levy by $4.5 million next year.

Although not legally bound by Tuesday's vote, selectmen are expected to agree and likely schedule the election in June.

If the override fails at the ballot box, Wareham will be left with a $56 million balanced budget for next year; voters passed that article earlier Tuesday by a large margin.

Officials have said that budget will result in dramatic across-the-board cuts in town services and personnel, including serious reductions in the library's budget and no funding of the Council on Aging budget.

Passage of the Proposition 2½ override will enable the town to regain funding lost in past year, stabilize the operating budget and avoid cuts in services and employees, town officials said.

Also Tuesday by The Standard-Times deadline:

Town Meeting voters approved $11,000 in Community Preservation Act funds to conduct an engineering study on potential future uses for the Onset Beach House; adopted a change in the Town Charter pertaining to budget submission dates for the Town Administrator and School Committee; and endorsed a citizens' petition from David Fenton and others to amend the zoning bylaws governing accessory buildings in residential districts.